Mites? Parasites? Help?

[gtr319]

I would at least clean out his enclosure, and rinse everything down with warm water first....

[John]

They're the wrong shape for mites. Mites look like chubby little spiders. These look like something else. Possibly some kind of spring tail. Short of completely removing the substrate and washing everything down, there's no way you'll get rid of them forever, but regularly changing out the substrate should keep their numbers down.

[poison beauties]

They do look like springs and if thats it they are harmless as far as hurting your frog. They may stress him out a bit but they are viv cleaners, The population can and will explode without anything in there to eat them. Best bet is to boil or bake anything going in the viv, like media soak the frog to make sure hes clean of them and put him back in there.

Michael

[cvBon1]

I looked up Springtails and I thought that's what they'd be but just to make sure I posted here to see what you guys thought. I will go tomorrow and get myself some new soil and clean out the tanks... to rid them of most of them so they are not too abundant.. but as for the bugs themselves they are okay with the frogs... no worries then?

[poison beauties]

No physical issues they just may irritate the frog when crawling on him.

Michael

[rebelbrat]

Id rinse off the frog & let him dry abit to dry up these bugs. to me they look like fly lavae from those tiny flys that hatch from wet mud. Id clean out tank & thro away substrate. Id use another tank & start over. Bleach out or rinse out old tank & let air dry for a few weeks Dont use anything else in the new tank that came from the old .See how u do with this.